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Janet Kumita completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Waterloo and obtained her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Toronto under Prof. G. Andrew Woolley, where she developed azobenzene switches to reversibly control peptide structure. In 2003, she was awarded an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship and joined Prof. Sir Christopher Dobson’s group in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, where she investigated how molecular chaperones modulate amyloid formation in variants of human lysozyme linked to systemic amyloidosis. In 2017, she was promoted to Principal Research Associate at the Centre for Misfolding Diseases. In April 2020, she joined Prof. Laura Itzhaki’s group as a Senior Research Associate. Janet is now a Group Leader in the Department of Pharmacology, focusing on the molecular processes underlying protein self-assembly through a multidisciplinary approach that includes biophysics and cell biology. Her main research interests include establishing the structure-function relationship of biomolecular condensates and investigating factors crucial for the progression of neurodegenerative diseases.
Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge • Cambridge, UK
Leads research group focusing on the molecular processes underlying protein self-assembly.
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